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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Russian Hackers? Rolling Stone magazine weighs in - [View all]SidDithers
(44,333 posts)10. Oh, it's Taibbi...
        Might as well be Greenwald.
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        Well, it's a story by Matt Taibbi who has been an outspoken critic of Democrats and Hillary Clinton
        BlueCaliDem
        Dec 2016
        #2
      
        
        In this story he's an OVERT hack with false equivalence and what he leaves out says more than
        uponit7771
        Dec 2016
        #21
      
        
        Aloha, Cha! Thanks for your comment. I agree with you, those two tools are busy normalizing tRump
        BlueCaliDem
        Dec 2016
        #54
      
        
        No, it's not journalism. It's Taibbi's fictional account of how things happened.
        KittyWampus
        Dec 2016
        #13
      
        
        Yeap, read the article ... Tiabbi leaves out a bunch of shit in his false ass'd equivalence to Iraq
        uponit7771
        Dec 2016
        #18
      
        
        It is bullshit, and him trying to equate it to the WMDs in Iraq story somehow makes his point valid,
        still_one
        Dec 2016
        #35
      
        
        Well it is easy to find out. Put Donald Trump and Roger Stone under a security investigation.
        UCmeNdc
        Dec 2016
        #11
      
        
        Charlie's gone undercover and is getting ready to blow the lid off the whole thing.
        NBachers
        Dec 2016
        #28
      
        
        FUCK TIABBI, No Mention of Benedict Donald inviting Russia to hack and the tangible ties between
        uponit7771
        Dec 2016
        #16
      
        
        +1, or giving hope to KGOP that we are divided ... we're not, just pissed about the treason and
        uponit7771
        Dec 2016
        #31
      
        
        Some of these guys want access, that's what happened with Hitler but in the US there are too
        uponit7771
        Dec 2016
        #50
      
        
        Horrible read, false equivalencies and omissions as if we never knew about Manafort
        uponit7771
        Dec 2016
        #33
      
        
        Don't know Tiabbi not to like him but know false equivalencies when I see them. He might have
        uponit7771
        Dec 2016
        #37
      
        
        No surprise Matt Taibbi would join the Hillary haters, Glen Greenwald and Jill Stein in defending
        still_one
        Dec 2016
        #34
      
        
        Yes, and the false equivalencies out the whole article and the lack of mentioning the obvious...
        uponit7771
        Dec 2016
        #38
      
        
        No surprise Matt Taibbi would join the Hillary haters, Glen Greenwald and Jill Stein in defending.
        LenaBaby61
        Dec 2016
        #39